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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54396	The devill of Mascon, or, A true relation of the chiefe things which an unclean spirit did, and said at Mascon in Burgundy in the house of Mr. Francis Pereaud, minister of the Reformed Church in the same towne / published in French lately by himselfe ; and now made English by one that hath a particular knowledge of the truth of this story.; Antidémon de Mascon. English	Perrault, François, 1577-1657.; Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.	1658 (1658)	Wing P1584; ESTC R40060	21,898	64

a turne in the street Really whither he went forth or staid we had a wonderfull silence during our prayer But no sooner was the prayer done but he began againe as before and urged and sollicited us to speake with him And so continued speaking and provoking us to speake till the 25 of November when he spake these last words Ha ha je ne parleray plus that is Alas alas I shall speake no more From that very time he gave over and spake no more I might adde many other discourses of this Demon but I confesse that I purposely omit them because they offend either Religion or the State or the good name of some great persons and honorable families or because they are foule and dishonest as proceeding from an uncleane Spirit So much as wee have related is sufficient to shew how strange and admirable was this speaking of the Devill As his words were strange and admirable so were his actions for besides those which I have related done in my absence he did many more of the same kind as tossing about very often a great roll of cloath of fifty ells which a friend had left at my house to be sent to Lyons by water Once he snacht a brasse candlestick out of the maids hand leaving the candle lighted in her hand He would very often take that mayd 's coates and hang them over the bed posts setting over them a rough hat such as the countriwemen of Bresse use to weare for she was of that countrey Sometimes he would hang at those poasts a great starching plate with coards so tyed and with so many knots that it was impossible to untie them and yet himselfe would suddenly untie them in a moment Once I found my bootes so intangled within a winding blades that they could not be taken off And many times he hath so twisted radishes together that the like could not be done unlesse it had bin studied with a very long patience and leisure One afternoone a friend of mine one Mr Connain a Physitian of Mascon bestowed a visit upon me As I was relating unto him these strange passages we went together to the chamber where the Demon was most resident There we found the featherbed blankets sheets and boulster layd all upon the floore I called the mayd to make the bed which she did in our presence but presently we being walking in the same roome saw the bed undone and tumbled downe on the floore as it was before In the roome over that where I had my study I found severall times part of my books laid on the floore and my houre-glasse unbroken and no other harme As I was once sitting in my study the Demon made a noise as it had beene a great voly of shot in the roome above Sometimes he would be the groome of my stable rubbing my horse and platting the haire of his tayle and maine but he was an unruly groome for once I found that he had saddled my horse with the crupper before and the pommel behind He was a good while in the house before we could perceive that he resorted to my bedchamber But one night after all were retired that were come to heare him my selfe and my family being all a bed the dores and the windowes of the house being well shut he came in and began to whistle softly and by intervalles as if he had bin afraid to awake us he knockt as if it had bin with his finger upon a trunk neere my bed as he did many times since He would throw our shooes about the roome those of the maid especially who feeling him once taking one of her shoes laid hold presently on the other and sayd smiling This thou shalt not have Under the table in the same roome he did once imitate the noise of hempdressers that beate the hempe foure together such as we had in our neighbourhood and keeping the same equall measure He made us heare for a long time a harmonie not unpleasant of two little bells tyed tohether which he had taken among some rusty irons in my house When I heard them first and knew by their sound that they were mine I went to the place where I had layd them but did not find them Neither did the Demon use these bells in my house onely but he carried them about to many places both of the towne and countrey Upon a Lords day morning as I was going to officiate at Vrigny with some elders of my Church we heard the sound of those bells very neere our eares Mr Lullier one of our company affirmed unto me that he had heard those bells many times at his house Many others have heard them very neere but could never see them Neither did that Demon play his tricks onely at my house Mr Lullier hath told me of many of his actions in his house and both shop As the taking and hiding of his jewels or tooles and then putting them againe where they were before While Mr Lullier was telling me of this he layd a golden ring which he had then in hand upon the table with the toole that he held it with but presently he found them missing and in vaine sought them halfe an houre wherefore he betooke himselfe to other worke but then he and I saw both the ring and the toole fall we knew not from whence upon the table againe One night that Lullier had not set up with us as he used to doe two that came from my house very late stayd by Lulliers shop to give him an account of the Demons actions and words that night While they were talking the Demon smote three times very hard upon a shed of boards that was over the shop The next night after Lullier and Repay comming from my house met a woman alone at the corner of the streete in a countrey habit spinning by Moone-shine But when they came neere to know what she was she vanished from their sight Leaving now such actions as the Demon did out of my house as things of which I cannot speake with the like certainty as those which I have seene heard my selfe I will but adde his last actions at my house and indeed the most troublesome of all as they say that the Devill is alwaies more violent in the end then in the beginning and is then most fierce when he must be gone He threw stones about my house continually the tenne or twelve last daies from morning to evening and in great quantity some of them of two or three pounds weight One of those last daies Mr Tornus comming to my house about noone would know whether the Devill was there still and whistled in severall tones and each time the Devill whistled to him againe in the same tone Then the Demon threw a stone at him which being fallen at his feete without any harme to him he tooke it up and marked it with a coale and flung it into the backside of the house which is neere the towne